Grinas
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I have been using freenas for over a year now and it has been great but the one downside I am seeing is that I need to use a tonne of VMs for my lab and it is just too time consuming to create these in Bhyve as I usually have to install the stock OS and then install all the applications required.
In some cases the OS are not compatible with Bhyve so I have to install as a VM on my laptop which is something that from listening to the laptops fan may cause the laptop to fly away.
I am planning on moving from native to Esxi but do not want to risk losing my data. I have searched the forum and can find numerous threads on using Esxi but I can not find any that detail the migration process from Native to Virtual.
I am assuming it is not as easy as installing Freenas VM on Esxi and then adding the existing data pools back. Will the pools need to be destroyed and recreated as VMware datastores and then recreated in Freenas and data transferred back?
My machine specs is in my signature.
Thanks for any help
In some cases the OS are not compatible with Bhyve so I have to install as a VM on my laptop which is something that from listening to the laptops fan may cause the laptop to fly away.
I am planning on moving from native to Esxi but do not want to risk losing my data. I have searched the forum and can find numerous threads on using Esxi but I can not find any that detail the migration process from Native to Virtual.
I am assuming it is not as easy as installing Freenas VM on Esxi and then adding the existing data pools back. Will the pools need to be destroyed and recreated as VMware datastores and then recreated in Freenas and data transferred back?
My machine specs is in my signature.
Thanks for any help